Pair o' Dox

Alberto "G" is for it. When Phil Spector attacks, you know he's being "Rumsfelded". While firing attorney's for being honest is a questionable practice, no one died.
bush, cheney and rove on the other hand have committed heinous crimes, international and domestic and raised abuse of power to new levels. They are rewarded by being allowed to continue as they have begun.
As the Democrats circle the bait, they are hoping we won't notice the real crooks still have a stranglehold on government.

Enough All Ready

The only news I want to read about the Bush administration is that it was run out of town on a rail.

Enough all ready of using every function of government for personal gain. Enough of the rape of justice. Enough war, enough of fomenting discord and enough of undermining other people's governments.

Enough of endless graft, corruption and lying.

Enough of turning the other cheek.

Impeach.

Carol DW

Historical Evidence

This evening The History Channel gave it's credibility a knock out punch by airing some of the most fact challenged and deplorable war mongering since the run up to the Iraq debacle. The title? "Iran, the Next Iraq?"

I could only stomach a few minutes of the chest thumping, fear mongering. We all know the format. Iran bad. America good. Iran wants to eat America. We the dysfunctional paranoics in the White House and Pentagon will save you. Write the History Channel here to demand they pull the program. Tell them that those who don't learn the lessons of history should not be allowed to repeat them.

There is absolutely no one with a an ounce of wit that thinks Iran is a real danger to America.
Bush, on the other hand, has named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil, stationed an Armada off their coast, threatened and propagandized (the logical source of this despicable film is the White House)and has failed to respond to any of Iran's efforts to work out a peaceful resolution. If they are developing nuclear weapons, (there is no evidence that they are), who could blame them?

I'm worried about the Bush boy trying to get his limp dick up by killing a bunch more brown people in Iran while wasting what remains of our once perfectly good army. What I read is not encouraging. An attack on Iran could end up in a nuclear confrontation with China or Russia. According to Sy Hersh, what they plan is a repeat of Iraq which is 0-2. (Israel's failed invasion of Lebanon was modeled on Iraq right down to the lack of flack jackets for the troops.) Also according to Hersh, the war pimps are short a full deck and believe that their blood soaked mess in Iraq is a thumping success.

In case you have any doubt that even Bush wouldn't be as foolhardy as to bring us to the brink of mutual destruction, check out this account of Bush's recent behavior. He's mad as a hatter.

carol

Caveat Emptor

The beautiful trees, the kennel with spacious lawns and the poorly maintained rentals next door are being replaced by 24 new cheek by jowel homes starting at just $750,000.
Paying three quarter of a million dollars for a place to hang your hat to me seems like madness. There is no view or city beat that might justify the price. Having watched this project stagger into its third year of waste and mismanagement, I conclude that developers in the still hot Seattle market have no incentive to be fiscally responsible or to give buyers value for their money.
Major bucks were spent on elaborate site preparation, cherry trees, sod(they killed or removed all the native vegetation) and fake gas lite lamposts. A small park sits atop a large drainage reservoir they constructed.
They cut corners on the sidewalks required by the city by hiring non union labor from south of the border. Those sidewalks are all ready crumbling because they used the wrong kind of cement.
Within the last three days, a half a dozen foundations have sprouted out of the mud also using Mexican labor. I was shocked to the poor quality of the work. The cement wasn't smoothed properly and the rebar was stuck in any old way. This is what is holding up your 3/4 of a million dollar castle.
It's not that Mexican workers can't do a good job. I have seen houses built by Mexicans in the American Southwest that are works of art. They were working using indiginous materials and techniques. Greedy developers are too busy exploiting the cheap labor pool they represent to even bother to train them or to care about the outcome when they don't.
In the Washington State legislature, the Speaker of the House held a buyer's rights bill hostage until the legislature adjourned. The most powerful lobbying group in WA state is the building industry. He and his family enjoyed a nice vacation as a gift from fellow legislators for doing such a great job.

To Do List

Read David Sirota's reports on the Democrat's shoddy imitation of the GOP screwing American workers.
Write Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell and Jay Inslee and tell them NOT to vote for this trade deal on pain of excommunication.
Write Charlie Wrangel and tell him its his last term in congress.
Write Rahm Emmanuel and tell him you are going to donate to Green Party until he resigns any and all leadership positions.
Thank the handful of brave Senators who are standing against this damaging legislation.
Give money to the labor, environmental, and human rights groups that oppose this legislation.
Pray to whatever Gods you are in communication with to curse the Democrats for not stopping the senseless bloodshed in Iraq, restraining Bush from attacking Iran and putting the whole Bush mafia in jail.
Pat yourself on the back for being all the citizen you can be.
Plan vacation. Watching your country go down the tubes is exhausting. You need a break.
carol

A couple of questions

this blog is a personal effort to ask the right questions.

i don't like capital letters. why should one word be more important than another? language is clearly a cooperative, symbolic form.

why do thinking people follow the lead of the right wing spinmiesters?
why are they discussing winning a war that is clearly a crime against humanity.
how does one win a war like that? what could the mission possibly be?
how can "supporting the troops" get translated into turning them into war criminals?
how can leaving america defenseless possibly be interpreted as "protecting america?

why does a cold drizzle begin every time I pack away my sweaters and take the down quilt off my bed. nine months of cold and rain should be enough of a sacrifice to mollify the most demanding of storm Gods.
what do they want?
carol